Trump Blames Protests on 'Radical' Lessons About Slavery, Racism
President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced school curricula that emphasize the impact of slavery and racism on American history and blamed left-wing indoctrination for nationwide protests against police brutality.
Patriotic moms and dads are going to demand that their children are no longer fed hateful lies about this country, Trump said in a speech at the National Archives in Washington.
The president claimed U.S. schoolchildren are taught that the U.S. was founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom and that they should feel ashamed of their own history, a curriculum he called radical.
The president on Thursday criticized as toxic propaganda the 1619 Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning public school curriculum developed by the New York Times that orients American history from the date that the first slave ship arrived in what later became the U.S. He equated certain racial teachings with child abuse and argued that the focus on historical sins threatened to impose a new segregation. Trump announced he would soon create a 1776 Commission in an apparent effort to rebut the 1619 Project. The commission will promote patriotic education, Trump said.
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